Reim Empire

[Apollymi]

A laugh escaped this woman as she began to descend the steps. Each step brought black Rukh from the woman as she finally made her way outside. The guards had already backed away, it was after all very obvious that they couldn't handle what was before them. "Oh what's this? Two Dungeon Capturers with fates entwined and convictions so strong~" she said her red eyes darting across them and their Rukh as she pulled from her side. "Why don't you be a good little pair and come to me. If you join us, I'll give you back your friends." she said but everything about this gave Yasmin a ominous feeling. The pink haired girl stood to the right of this woman a great distance off but equally far away from Fudo which was a bit perplexing.

Meanwhile Nasira's eyes darted across this torturer as he mentioned a threat which included Bakura. Nasira was a lot of things, but she wasn't a coward, and she had no such odd feelings. "You'd have better luck trying to beat it out of me... and it wouldn't change the answer." she mentioned with a lack of emotion. Of course right after she said this, Bakura spit blood in the face of their captor for some unknown reason. And when this happened the man who was standing suddenly in their face, would rather oddly have a rope dart pierce through his eye and then disappear. Assuming he could do nothing to dodge the speedy attack he would be dead instantaneously and the small red haired boy they'd found in their tunnel would be right behind him. "Hm, I didn't know you could see me. That's odd." the boy said of Bakura. Casually stepping over the body to retrieve the keys which would free the pair from the wall. "Your friends are making a lot of commotion up front. We should be wanting to exit this place as quickly as possible." he said as he unlocked both of their shackles.

[Bloodedge]

Though Fudo cared not for the guards that were backing away. However, he was quite wary of this woman who approached, and he looked unto her with narrowed eyes. The offer this woman made was one that Fudo could only consider ridiculous. "Join you to get our friends back? Surely you jest. It's good to know they're still alive, though. Good for you." With that said, Fudo began walking forward, intending to pass this woman just as he'd passed the initial guards, keeping up his torrent of flames. "Out of the way. I'll get them myself."

Bakura's hunch was correct. Before the interrogator was able to hit him, he stopped in his tracks and fell to the floor, forming a puddle of his own blood where he landed. This brought the red-haired boy into view, and resulted in a mighty sigh of relief from Bakura. "Whew! I'm glad I was right about you being around somewhere. I thought I was a goner!" When he was finally released from the chains, Bakura rubbed his wrists to ward away the remaining feeling from the cuffs. Knowing that his group of companions was around brought another grin to the lad's face. "They're here, but you wanna get out? We could go wild, y'know. Deal with all our problems right now."

[Apollymi]

"Oh, stop it now. You can't do anything I don't allow." said the woman. As she pointed towards the young man and his pink haired female companion. She made use of Gravity Magic which would cause the pair of them to be pulled towards each other and stop their movements a distance off from herself, it would also extinguish the flames through the force of her will, or rather simply by her giving the Rukh a command which would make them stop. If successful in this she'd create a ball of Light Magic in her hand, causing multiples of herself to appear around them. "Temper, temper. Future Kings are supposed to be more reserved than that." mentioned the woman who seemed nothing but amused by this entire situation. Still, it was going to be a bit of a pain to deal with her and Yasmin didn't like what was going on here.

"Oh, so you can't see me then. Hm... still." the boy said seemingly fine with this but finding the boy to be strange all together. "You'd make an interesting assassin." he said finally moving right along, with Nasira freed and now on the ground the girl was hopping in place and rotating her shoulders getting read to move right along. She also agreed with Bakura and this made the red haired boy sigh. "All of you are way too brash. There is a Magi here, and not one of the ones who travels with you. If you all don't escape here... you will likely just be recaptured. And I really don't want that." said the boy who for some unknown reason was rather invested in this group's well being. Nasira thought about it and began moving towards the front. "We should at least check on Fudo and Yasmin. Magi shouldn't be fought against."

[Bloodedge]

"Beg pardon?" Fudo said in response to the woman's claim. Immediately thereafter, he felt himself being pulled toward the rear. As he worked to resist this, he looked behind him to see where he would be headed. It seemed this spell was aimed to pull Yasmin and himself together. Realizing this, he disabled his Djinn Weapon Equip and allowed himself to move freely by the Gravity Magic's will, turning toward Yasmin as he did. His own weapon was sheathed in the process, but Fudo had a plan in mind. "Reserved Kings are fools. A true King should put everything he has on the table. The good... the bad... chaos." It was Fudo's intention in this moment to crash into Yasmin, but with a hand open to grab hold of her Metal Vessel without necessarily taking it from her. Once his hand was upon it, he began speaking directly into Yasmin's face, keeping as silent as possible as to avoid the ear of the enemy. "Spirit of Maniacal Love and Chaos, we order thine ancestors..."

Bakura had taken to inspecting the other young man closely, poking at his torso. He found this lad strange due to the fact that he could avoid sight and sense while being in the same room as someone. 'Assassin?' he thought. Standing upright, he looked the redhead in the eye, his own eyes blinking in constant confusion. "Who are you?"

[Apollymi]

"Oh?" this woman seemed confused by what this young man said, but obviously Yasmin wasn't. Smart enough that she caught up to the apparent idea that Fudo had without any hesitation once they were occupying the same space with his hand on her weapon she finished the invocation of the power of her chosen Djinn. "To use our Magoi and give us power. Come out, Paimon." this was said outside the earshot of the woman who was now cloned around them. Of course, what would happen next would be very odd. The combination of Yasmin and Fudo's Magoi would cause a great disruption across the country of Reim the likes of which hadn't been sensed before. Doing what they had would cause both individuals to wear the Djinn Equip of Paimon the white robes and armor and slightly feathered bodies. "What on earth is this?"

Meanwhile within the castle, the red haired boy found himself being inspected by Bakura. "I'm Tetsuya." he said with no further explanation necessary. He knew this was a girl who couldn't really figure out what this boy was doing here. "So... an Assassin has been trailing us, and the only question you have is who he is..." this was Nasira as she poked her head out of the door to see if there was anything she should be worried about.

In a completely different space, Shula was with Shadiya and Malik and became immediately distracted by the change in the Magoi. In fact her eyes widened completely as she stared off into the distance and tried to figure out what it could have been. Samiya who was also in Reim somewhere with Ali also looked in the direction this shifted Magoi was coming from her brows drawn together in confusion.

[Bloodedge]

"Paimon!" As this joint invocation finished, Fudo gained the robes of Paimon which differed slightly from those he received from Djinn Weapon Equip earlier this day. What's more, the Metal Vessel which held the Fire Djinn, Amon, became a soft copy of Paimon's spear. Fudo made immediate use of the Djinn's abilities by creating a wall of wind betwixt Yasmin and himself, allowing their bodies to be separated in spite of this woman's Gravity Magic. "Good thing you come with free cushioning," he said to Yasmin while turning toward the enemy. "I hope that wasn't too rough on you. Now then... where were we?"

"Tetsuya..." Now that he knew this boy's name, Bakura had all the information he cared about. As such, he joined Nasira at the door, chuckling as retort to her observation. "Yep! He's not a bad guy; I can tell." And with that, he was prepared to take the path toward the others in the palace hall.

Ali's eyes were already toward the sky as this strange phenomenon occurred. The Rukh seemed to be vibrating at a frequency which was otherwise unheard of, and there was only one thing he could think to blame. Everything nearby was being affected by this act between Dungeon Capturers, and Ali's eyes were also shifted in the direction of this disturbance's source. "Sami... don't you think it's strange for those two to be how they are, considering they are the candidates of different Magi?"

[Apollymi]

It seemed both of them were capable of invoking Paimon's power simultaneously. It was then used by Fudo to help cushion the space between them, not that their almost complete collision was even slightly unpleasant. A smile came to the girl's face as she took note of the carbon copy of her own weapon in this man's hand. "That wasn't bad at all." she saw flipping the weapon around in her hand. Meanwhile the Magi they were not fighting against looked all but amazed. There was literally no precedent for what she was seeing here. "No, we don't get to just brush past this. What on earth are you?" she questioned this pair of dungeon capturers. They were unrelated and sharing the power of a Djinn. Not as Capturer and Household member but simply on equal terms and this was something she couldn't have possibly understood. Still her magic wasn't without multiple uses, and the use of Gravity Magic would only continue if not to pull the pair of them together than to force the earth up beneath the feet of these young dungeon capturers as the full set of illusionary people around them began charging light magic in balls.

"I suppose that is fine and all. Considering that if he wanted either of us dead, we'd already be such." she mentioned. Something about her as a person didn't really like the idea of someone slipping in and out of her line of vision and being completely knowable. The boy known as Tetsuya slipped up behind the pair as they discussed him and he simply spoke knowing that they probably had already lost track of him again. "To be fair... I don't believe myself to be a good or a bad person. And I am not under orders to kill any of you. If that makes you feel better." he mentioned in the casual way that someone who has killed more people than they should have discusses killing people. Moving right along he slipped out of the door heading back towards the front of the building. "We should get moving."

To Ali's words the Magi known as Samiya turned and shrugged. "Everything about them has been strange. Since I met them, I've not known what to think about them. You and I aren't so different that we'd choose completely different people, but..." Samiya paused feeling the Rukh. "I have no idea how we managed to separately choose two people so alike. Unless, it wasn't really our choice at all." mentioned the redhaired young woman as she got the tingling feeling about the magic being used by the pair of like, but unrelated dungeon capturers.

[Bloodedge]

"Oh, you know..." Fudo replied to the Magi when asked what Yasmin and himself were. At this point, he figured he could afford to be a bit cheeky. "The stuff of legend." Without further ado, Fudo aimed his spear toward the ceiling, conjuring a powerful tornado around Yasmin and himself, the likes of which he should not have been able to muster even with all of his might. Its purpose was to force the enemy woman and all of her clones away from them, though it easily carried the power to continue blasting through wall after wall within the palace from there. All the while, this wind caused the torn-up bits of the floor to be swept away instantly, allowing potential concussive damage to any and everything found at the rim of this gale.

The more Ali thought about the situation Samiya and himself had been witnessing unfold for some time now, the more he realized how strange it was. He had to credit Samiya's point, though. It likely had nothing to do with their involvement, no matter how alike their candidates were. This was something that began long, long ago. "Fate is strange. I never thought I'd see a stranger case than Yusef..."

[Apollymi]

At Fudo's words the two women around him had two very different reactions. Yasmin, giggled just a bit finding the whole situation utterly humorous while the black haired Magi seemed to be disgusted in the most complete way. "Brat." the woman said but as she spoke around this pair of dungeon capturers a vortex was created which immediately blew apart and dispersed her clones and the magic they'd been about to cast. Beyond that it spread the damage out and around this place, and began tearing at walls and practically demolishing the palace around them. "Don't get ahead of yourself." the woman said, as a borg was created around herself the likes of which none of them would have seen before. Because hers, instead of being made of the light Rukh like all others was formed of black ones which condensed before her as she walked rather calmly into the vortex to find herself within it. Once inside she didn't lower the Borg no, instead she cast her magic from within, a tendril escaped off of it and turned into two which would aim to blow apart the pair of dungeon capturers with gravity magic for no other reason than to show them the kind of power they were messing with. This would succeed in tossing Yasmin at least, as she was utterly shocked by the color of this woman's borg. "You two are impressive, I'll grant you that. But you could be so much more... join me." she said quite firmly this time.

Samiya on the other hand, was quite fond of the little twists and turns fate seemed to give them. After all, if everything always worked out the exact same way, life would get rather stale. At the mention of Yusef though the redhead's brow rose. "Yusef, he was just a really strong child. Odd, but by no means the oddest thing I've ever expected to see." she said at the mention of this young man. "This pairing makes me curious though, I wonder how it will turn out and just what those two will be able to accomplish together. " said Samiya and while she did back at the palace a certain red haired boy was presently stopping the movements of a black haired girl and hopefully a white haired boy. "Uh, we can't go this way." he said as a wall was ripped to shreds before them. They would need to go around to flee the palace and more so than that, there were now other people fleeing as well. "Anyway to let them know you two are safe so that we might all have a chance to get out of here?" he asked of the pair of them.

[Bloodedge]

The Magi's insult only brought a jovial chuckle from Sindria's prince. As far as he was concerned, they now had the upper hand against her. That is, until her Borg was revealed, showcasing a color which Fudo had never seen, and being more powerful than the norm to boot. Fudo had seen a few different mages in his lifetime, but never had he seen one with a barrier that was black. That was not, however, his only problem. It seemed this woman was capable of using this barrier of hers to attack, and immediately did so with her Gravity Magic cast seemingly by the Borg itself. This resulted in the separation of Fudo from Yasmin, and to his surprise, the loss of his Djinn Equip as well. 'It's gone? Hmm... Maybe we have to stay close to each other to keep that power. That would make sense,' he thought. Luckily, the Magi's onslaught did not continue there. She instead insisted once more that they join her for whatever reason, but Fudo held no interest for this offer. So, he pointed his sword in the woman's direction, eyeing Yasmin briefly enough to relay an unspoken message to prepare for the next maneuver. "And how exactly, sorceress, could you make more out of us?"

Bakura, after being stopped by Tetsuya, bore witness to the sudden destruction of the wall in front of himself and the others in his company. He could only assume this was the work of Yasmin, considering Tetsuya's testimony spoke of their friends being in the palace. He could not confirm this absolutely, but he had a very strong hunch. "Wait..." he said, continuing to watch as the tornado died down. Since Fudo no longer had Paimon's Djinn Equip active, the winds produced by him were being removed from the vicinity over the course of a mere few seconds. This allowed Fudo, Yasmin, and the Magi they faced, to be viewed by the others. "There they are. But..."

[Apollymi]

After finding herself separated from Fudo, Yasmin noted that their shared Djinn Equip had been cancelled for Fudo but she was left with her own still in tact. Though this didn't bother her, it did put into perspective a bit of understanding of their apparent shared ability. 'Distance matters, for the person who wasn't the one to capture the original dungeon. Okay.' she thought as she glanced towards Fudo who was now holding his sword in this woman's direction and his glance towards the pink haired girl let her know that she should prepare for what was next and so she did, foregoing her djinn equip for whatever reason, and moving steadily closer to Fudo, while the woman before them laughed at the assumptions being made by the male child before her. "Well, obviously I'll make you two, King and Queen like no other. I am a Magi after all." mentioned the woman. Such a statement would have been shocking but her next use of magic would more than prove this point. As she held a hand up in the air, the black Rukh began to descend upon her like none would have ever seen before. Beyond this they began to change and mutate in the air around them turning into demon like beasts which the woman grew to sizes larger than she was herself to set upon this pair, hoping to subdue them, or at the very least wear them out so they could be properly talked into joining her.

Among the group now on the outer fringes, Nasira found herself staring at Fudo and Yasmin the same as everyone else. Though she had been stopped from moving before the wall had crumbled she could swear she saw, both of the Dungeon Capturers using the same Djinn Equip at the same time. Such a thing was obviously not possible so she brushed it aside. "It seems like a bad time to interrupt them... I don't know about everyone else, but I don't belong in that sort of fight." she said. Tetsuya could only agree as he stared at the group before him. 'A magi and two dungeon capturers. I would say that the former should have already won. I do wonder what on earth they could be doing right now to hold up against her.' and though he didn't ask this aloud he would soon get an answer to his question. Yasmin began speaking as the monsters began to form above them swarming greatly enough to darken the sky. "Spirit of Politeness and Austerity, in the name of our magoi..." she started the invocation of not the Djinn she'd personally captured but the one previously captured by Fudo, while taking hold of his metal vessel from the hand he held it in pointed at this apparent Magi. She did this while leaving it in his hand, the same thing as he'd done with her.

[Bloodedge]

'Magi?' Hearing this caused Fudo quite a bit of confusion, as he'd never imagined it being the case that this woman was yet another Magi in this world. In spite of this new information, though, he intended to defeat this woman here and now. As her beasts came to life, Yasmin took hold of Amon's Metal Vessel. This would allow the repeat of their earlier synchronized Djinn Equip, but with Fudo's Djinn instead. "... and our will to grant us a greater power, we order you and your members," he continued from Yasmin's part of the incantation. With this, Amon's flames were emitted from the Djinn insignia on the sword. "Come forth, Amon!" The place in which they stood would quickly become engulfed in flames as both parties' attires gained the flame-like greaves and gauntlets, in addition to the loose-fitting white robes, and gold jewelry of Amon. The first to emerge from the fire was Fudo, who seemed to have undergone a change in hair color, becoming blonde with his hair tied in two long ponytails. He carried the large, black sword of Amon with him on a path directly toward the enemy herself, seeming to think nothing of what she had called forth for them to deal with. "Is that all you can offer? I can give us that myself," he said while stopping just shy of the range he remembered as being their limit for this ability. Still using the momentum he had, Fudo slashed downward with Amon's sword, sending a straightforward torrent of flames toward the opposing Magi.

Bakura kept his eyes peeled, believing there to be some way he could step out onto this scene without risking too much. As he watched, though, he saw something very strange, and a bit frightening. From his current perspective, Yasmin stood right beside Fudo as the latter's Metal Vessel summoned its power. So, without knowing any better, he was left to assume the pink-haired girl was being burned alive by the effect of the male's Djinn Equip, which caused his eyes to widened. "Yas! What are you doing!?"

[Apollymi]

"Amon!" Yasmin finished the invocation in unison with Fudo and once again the pair was enveloped together in the Djinn Equip of one of their apparently shared Djinn. Her outfit now changed to the one that belonged to Amon, she also would move out after Fudo her own weapon turned into a soft copy of Amon's sword. Which she held in her hand turning about just a bit to get used to its weight. Before she'd emerge she'd also have a look at her attire which was pretty nice and not entirely different from what she'd gotten used to using Paimon's Equip. The weapon though, wasn't her general preference but soon she'd emerge from the flames making a statement to no one in particular. "Hm... Using a weapon this big... will take some getting used to." she chimed but to get right into it. She swung the blade upwards to the descending creatures as Fudo went to handle the woman who had caused them this particular annoyance. The flames that spread from the girl's blade were much stronger than she'd anticipated burning up those creatures which filled the sky as Fudo made his way forward. The Magi had up a borg to deflect the attack coming her way, still, she didn't expect the sort of power these two seemed to possess when they were using one of their given Djinn in unison. "I'm not talking giving you some paltry country. You two could rule the world with my guidance." she mentioned the young man her borg withstanding the onslaught but soon enough Yasmin was joining and jumping into the air sinking her phantom copy of Amon's sword into the borg directly searing flames melting it where it made contact much to the dismay of the Magi inside. "Sorry, but if we wanted all that, I'm sure we'd find a way to do it without you." she said as she jumped back off the place she was leaving a sizeable melted hole in the borg, assuming of course, that the final blow to this woman would be dealt by Fudo.

Meanwhile, Nasira noticed Bakura getting a bit distressed by the situation Yasmin appeared to be in, she felt the need to comfort him then. "Don't worry, if she was in any danger from that, Fudo wouldn't have allowed it to happen." she said though she was also curious as to why the other girl would stand so close to the coming flames. Only to remember her earlier thought that both of them had been using the same Djinn Equip when they'd arrived. 'No...' she thought only to have her own eyes widen after Yasmin finally emerged from the flames also cloaked in the Djinn Equip of Amon. Nasira at that moment ran out of things to say, but even the stalwart assassin was shocked by this turn of events. "That... isn't... possible."

[Bloodedge]

"The guidance of a Fallen Magi... As absolutely tempting as that sounds, I can't say I'm interested." As Fudo resolved himself to being fully against this woman and her ideals, Yasmin pressed onward with an attack great enough to break the Magi's Borg. This left a hole in the barrier, which was all Fudo needed to have his flames enter. "And it sounds like the lady agrees. Amol Dherrsaiqa!" With the compression of his Magoi and Amon's flames, Fudo shrank his sword into a form sharing the size of his unused Metal Vessel. With it in this form, he produced a vortex of flames around the blade, taking the stance belonging to his form of Royal Swordplay while dashing toward the Magi. A spin preceded a forward lunge with the sword, which sent the flame torrent directly toward the Magi and her Borg. Fudo intended to let his fire leak into the hole Yasmin created, filling the Magi's defensive barrier with flames.

Meanwhile, Bakura stood dumbfounded that nothing had befallen Yasmin. In fact, she seemed to have undergone the same transformation as Fudo, which was more than a bit strange, considering what they all knew about Djinn Metal Vessels. Still ever the confused individual, he didn't seem to grasp what Tetsuya was referring to when he spoke. "Huh?"

[Apollymi]

The Magi who was standing here was utterly confused. Most had no idea what a fallen person was, for someone to be able to identify her as such was completely astounding. Beyond this, their combined usage of two different Djinn Equips and the power that came with it was for a second more than she knew how to deal with. Their apparent denial of her offer to join them, came with a torrent of fire leaking through the barrier which was her borg. Her eyes would widen as the flames seemed to engulf her person and when they cleared, there would appear to be nothing left of her. Of course this would be a trick. Still, she didn't think it prudent to continue fighting with this duo as a mistake on her part could end in her untimely demise. She instead used her light magic to create a stand in of herself to burn away while she escaped through use of her isolation barrier which cancels magic usage directly around her and was bent to her precise form as she escaped behind the flames. Such a tactic needed absolute control over her magoi which she had enough to make it seem as if she disappeared in the fires of this pairs final attack. "That seemed too easy." Yasmin said but now wasn't really the time to think about that, she seemed to relax still wearing the Djinn Equip normally owned exclusively by Fudo. They needed to fetch Nasira and Bakura and likely run from this palace as quickly as possible. "But we should find Baki and Nasira and get out of here before worrying too much about it."

The trio of others who were waiting out the battle seemed to be awestruck by all that they had witnessed. It would be Bakura to question it directly, though Tetsuya could have said more about it, he'd already disappeared from behind them as the final blow was struck. After all, there was no need for him to stay given that these people had gotten back to their friends. Instead, it would be Nasira to speak. "I... think... they can use their Djinn Equips together... which... is a thing that shouldn't be possible, right Tetsu..." she turned to find the boy gone completely from their midst. "Yeah, cause that isn't unnerving or anything." she mumbled thinking that the assassin had made himself a friend of theirs for whatever reason. Still, it seemed the battle was over and as such she stood up more clearly extending a hand to Bakura. "Why don't we just go ask them?"